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Environmental Mechanics explores how a more formalised system of post-conflict assistance could increase the protection of civilians and their environment, and help to create and strengthen norms against environmentally destructive military behaviours. In doing so it seeks to identify the legal principles and structures that could help such a system function, and examine the thematic areas where more focused legal and political debate would be important to achieve this goal.

Nov42015

New desk study on Syria identifies pollution risks to civilians

Blog, Country, SyriaBy ConEnvObs November 4, 2015

The ongoing conflict in Syria is likely to have a disastrous impact on the environment and public health, according to a new study published by PAX. Four years of fighting has left cities in rubble and caused widespread damage to industrial sites, critical infrastructure and the oil industry.

Nov42015

ILPI | Report: Expert Meeting on the Protection of the Environment in times of Armed Conflict, Helsinki 2015

External Content, Law and policy, TopicBy ConEnvObs November 4, 2015

This workshop reviewed the findings of the empirical study by ILPI into the environmental dimensions of international and non-international armed conflicts.

Nov42015

PAX | Amidst the debris – a desktop study on the environmental and public health impact of Syria’s conflict:

Country, External Content, SyriaBy ConEnvObs November 4, 2015

This desktop analysis identifies four types of hazards – feasible scenarios in which the environmental impact of the conflict may have a direct and or long-term impact on the public health of the Syrian people.

Oct152015

PENGO | 2014 War on Gaza Strip: Participatory Environmental Impact Assessment

Country, External Content, Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesBy ConEnvObs October 15, 2015

This assessment seeks to identify all the potential environmental impacts of 2014’s Operation Protective Edge almost a year after it came to an end. Its findings are based on participatory research in which more than ten experts and almost a thousand Palestinians from the Gaza Strip participated.

Oct52015

ICRC: Urban services during protracted armed conflict

External Content, Law and policy, TopicBy ConEnvObs October 5, 2015

Based on 30 years of ICRC work in urban conflict zones, this report warns that unless humanitarian agencies adopt a different approach to assisting urban populations in conflict, the human and social cost could be catastrophic, with the deterioration of critical infrastructure leaving people without essential services.

Sep182015

OSCE | Access to water in conflict‐affected areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions

Country, External Content, UkraineBy ConEnvObs September 18, 2015

This report examines how the right to an adequate standard of living has been affected by the conduct of hostilities, particularly access to sufficient, safe, acceptable and affordable water for personal and domestic use.

Aug282015

Which states are progressive on conflict and the environment?

Blog, Law and policy, TopicBy ConEnvObs August 28, 2015

The first tentative moves to strengthen legal protection for the environment before, during and after armed conflict are underway. We take a look at a scientifically unrepresentative sample of governments to see who’s progressive, and who would rather the international community stuck with a status quo that does little to protect the environment or the civilians who depend on it.

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